607 Quotes by Brené Brown

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.